There are some great people who work at Limited Brands and the culture is very relaxed and flexible. The buildings are gorgeous and there's a Starbucks and sometimes a product store on site. It's a great place to start your career, given the reputation behind the brand.

Cons

However, most people get stuck in the same role for years or burn out from capacity. There's seems to be absolutely no succession structure within the firm.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Don't have an intern program if you're not going to have anywhere to place them.

Great team and great environment to work for. Nice perks and health coverage.The NY office is large and the whole building in midtown Manhattan belongs to them.The office space is neat, clean, organized, lot's of space, and the staffs are nice for the most part. I enjoy working with talented employees that were great to work for.

Cons

During the interview process I highly suggest that being honest with a potential candidate is very important. I went for an interview as a permanent position and turns out a week later it was temp. They promise that the position will become permanent when honestly the closest thing to permanent is the renewal of your contract. As a freelancer you don't qualify for anything as oppose to permanent employees. You feel like an outsider trying to peek in everyday and to be accepted. Most staffs are very nice and helpful while some others are just rude and not friendly. As a freelancer you feel restricted and limited. The company itself is going through a restructure and it is mayhem in there. Meetings can overlap and many meetings in your calendar. They need to be more organized, need to minimize the so many charts they have and try to come up with a better and organized system. As a freelancer you're not kept in the loop most of the time. .

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Hire permanent employees that can bring so much potential and skills to the company rather then temps.Provide a better package to your temps.Don't limit the potential a person can bring to the company by just having them do the grunt work.

Some great coworkers. The workload is not heavy, but not terrible. They offer flexible hours. Not a total cookie-cutter work environment; they'll let you be flexible with cross-functional partners to make workflow smoother. Benefits are pretty good, the 401k match is better than a lot of companies, but not amazing.

Cons

There can be a lot of politics. Some of the high-level management can play favorites more severely than I've ever seen (if they love you, you can do no wrong; if they don't like you, they'll make your worklife miserable until you quit). I left for a better offer elsewhere, but I lost a lot of great coworkers due to upper-level mind games.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Pay attention to which of your departments heads play favorites too heavily and rein them in. If people under a specific head keep leaving, look into why that's happening and fix it.